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XXVIIL 

 ON BARREN ISLAND, AND ITS VOLCANO, 



BY LIEUT. R. H. COLEBROOKE. 



A ^OUT fifteen leagues to the eastward of the An* 

 -*- -*- daman islands lies an island which navigators, 

 from its appearance, have justly called Barren, On the 

 1 2th of May 1787, Captain Kyd and myself, being 

 on board the Trial Snow, on a voyage to Pulo Pen- 

 ang, Barren Island in sight, bearing SSW. seven 

 leagues distant, saw a column of smoke ascending from 

 its summit, and by the help of our glasses plainly per- 

 ceived it to arise from a hill nearly in its center, 

 arojjnd which appeared an extensive valley, or crater ; 

 but being becalmed, we could not approach nearer to 

 examine it. 



The following account of this remarkable island is 

 given by Captain Blair, in his report of the Survey 

 of the Andaman islands. 



" I left that coast March the 21st, and landed on 

 <c Barren Island on the 24th. — The volcano was in 

 " a violent state of eruption, bursting out immense 



volumes of smoke, and frequently fhowers of red 

 c( hot stones. Some were of a size to weigh three or 

 " four tons, and had been thrown some hundred 

 u yards past the foot of the cone. There were two 



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